Despite how many troll posts I make on this board, this is genuine and I felt I had to air it out simply because I can't help but speak my goddamn mind on this. Frankly as I'm typing it I feel like this is a stupid idea seeing as how everyone would call me a hypocrite for everything I said in the past.
With how pathetic the first party output this year has been (almost immediately after having a great 2021) I don't think I can deny that Xboxs software output is god damn dismal this year. Frankly I'd probably do a better job. Everything else has been excellent but God damn, games have been pathetic.
Like, putting all of this aside, let's listen to the Xbox fanboys here for a moment and humor them. 2023 is the year of Xbox and by some miracle everything rumored in the pipeline came out. Xbox has its most profitable year in history and fans are happy. These games were announced around 2017/18. For a year like that to happen again we'd have to wait 6 years until 2029. Xbox would basically be relying on this strategy of little/no games for half a decade, then a sudden blowout of quality content. Thats a fucking terrible strategy and its all because of MS pathetic management, wanting studios to make games but not really holding them accountable for it or having them put in the fucking work to get them out on time reasonably.
Frankly, I can't really see myself being a green rat anymore when we're this starved for new content. You know what I think? I'm getting a God damn Playstation and I'm going to enjoy it. Hopefully. I don't have a lot of cash at the moment. I say I'm not that interested in Playstation exclusives and that I hate them, but when the competition is this dry I can't help but feel the grass is greener on the other side. Besides... I can't knock it until I've tried it. The spiderman pc port was kind of fun despite me saying I wasn't interested in it. Fuck this fanboy shit, until MS gets their shit together I'm going towards greener pastures. Those pastures being Valve and Sony. As my good friend
@TintoConCasera said...
Anyways uhhh.... anyone know where in the HELL I can get one?????
Edit: i have a PC, switch, and Xbox series S so i can't really sell it for much
Look, I agree that the 1st party has been quite abysmal, especially this year. But we have to look at the big picture here.
This issue roots all the way back to the announcement of Xbox One when Don Mattrixk single handely started smearing and destroying the Xbox brand with horrendous PR prior to the Xbox One's launch.
He then left or got fired and Phil Spencer took over and was the one who started cleaning up the big mess. It took over 4-6 years to bring back a good image for the Xbox and go from anti consumer practices and more consumer friendly thanks to amazing backwards compatability and Game Pass offerings.
But the games were still lacking, so they started buying out studios. 2018 is when they announced many studios including Ninja Theory, Playground Games, and many others.
However, starting brand new studios and getting the ground running takes a long time. It doesn't happen over night. Fast forward to 2020 the entire world got put on pause cause you know why. This has put a stop every single studio, industry, and just people's love in general. You don't need me to tell me that, you lived through that yourself.
Plus 2020 was a brand new console cycle, the transition to new gen hardware also takes time. Why does Sony have so many games this and last year? Because majority of their biggest titles are cross gen including Spider Man Miles Morales, Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok.
With the only exception being Returnal and Ratchet and Clank, but let's be real, while these are great games they are much on a smaller scale and ambition than opposed to something like Fable Reboot, Awoved, Starfield and others. Projects of this size take far longer time, money and energy.
Same thing for Sony, they were smart with keeping people happy in the meantime with their cross gen games but you still won't see next gen stuff from 1st party on both publishers.
Another issue with Microsoft is yes the management is a tad strange and I am not sure what's happening. 343 is another disaster. Sony doesn't have these issues because studios like Housemarque, Insomniac and Guerilla Games have been been making for PlayStation systems for many decades, there was nothing new to setup or curate. These were already fully grown development teams.
Microsoft is starting more from scratch and as I said previously that will take while to get right.
I think Microsoft is in a much better place now. Yes it sucks to have wait longer but it is what it is.
Long story short, you have to understand the situation they were in and the fact that true changes do not happen overnight. Either way, I think both publishers have great stuff coming.